East Asia may have a better 1-year survival following an acute heart failure episode compared with Europe: results from an international observational cohort

Affiliations

• ¹ Inserm UMR-S 942, Paris, France.
• ² Division of Cardiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
• ³ Department of Cardiology, Hôpitaux Universitaires Saint Louis-Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg O&N1, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hôpitaux Universitaires Saint Louis-Lariboisiere, Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Cardiology, Helsinki University and Division of Cardiology, Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁸ Emergency Department, Hospital Clinic and 'Emergencies: Processes and Pathologies' Research Group, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• ⁹ Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Centre of Cardiology and Angiology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• ¹⁰ Cardiovascular Center and Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
• ¹¹ University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
• ¹² Division of Cardiology and Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Musashi-Kosugi Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan.
• ¹³ Division of Cardiology, Sekikawa Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁴ Emergency Medicine Department, François-Rabelais University and Tours University Hospital, Tours, France.
• ¹⁵ ANMCO Research Center, Florence, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Department of Cardiology, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.
• ¹⁷ Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel and Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹⁸ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Brno and Medical Faculty, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
• ¹⁹ Heart Failure Center Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
• ²⁰ Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.